Nature, place, and story : rethinking historic sites in Canada / Claire Elizabeth Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Claire Elizabeth, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 8.

McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic sites--Canada.

Historic sites.

Public history--Canada.

Public history.

Canada--Environmental conditions--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But when seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of the occupation and transformation of nature into a nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there is a growing need to know more about the history of our relationship with the natural world and what lessons these places of public history, regional identity, and national narrative can teach us. Nature, Place, and Story provides new interpretations for five of Canada's largest and most iconic historic sites: L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; Fort William, Ontario; the Forks of the Red River, Manitoba; and the Bar U Ranch, Alberta. At each location, Claire Campbell rewrites public history as environmental history, revealing the country's debt to the power and fragility of the natural world, and the relevance of the past to understanding climate change, agricultural sustainability, wilderness protection, urban reclamation, and fossil fuel extraction. From the medieval Atlantic to modern ranch lands, environmental history speaks directly to contemporary questions about the health of Canada's habitat. Bringing together public and environmental history in an entirely new way, Nature, Place, and Story is a lively and ambitious call for a new way to view and comprehend natural heritage."--Site de l'éditeur.

Contents:

Gateway to a new world : L'Anse aux Meadows

Idyll and industry : Grand Pré

Wilderness, lost and found : Fort William

Variety, heritage, adventure, and park : he Forks of the Red River

Nature's gentlemen and a nation's frontier : the Bar U Ranch.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773551787

0773551786

9780773551770

0773551778

OCLC:

981935176